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Growth equity private investment firm FTV Capital has made a significant investment in hedge fund fund administrator and regulatory services provider Centaur Fund Services.
Guotai Junan International (GTJAI) has gone live with Finastra’s end-to-end equities derivatives trading and cross-asset risk solution, Fusion Sophis.The move has enabled GTJAI to launch trading operations in Hong Kong following a short implementation, helping to fuel the firm’s growth and maximise market share.
“We are committed to building a totally new platform in Hong Kong to cater for the needs of our clients for tailor-made OTC structured products and exchange-traded derivatives products, such as Warrants and Callable Bull/Bear Contracts,” says Henry Yu, Head of Financial Products, Wealth Management at GTJAI. “To make this venture a success, we wanted to
Canadian ETF investors can now access hedge fund investment including short-selling, leverage and derivatives, via a new suite of liquid alternatives funds from CI Investments.
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Kempen & Co (Kempen) has launched a new range of research reports on companies and funds operating in the renewable energy sector.The research team comprises Kempen’s equity analysts Charles Maynadier, Juri Zanieri and Stuart Gillies; a team with many years’ experience in the infrastructure sector. Kempen can thus now offer institutional investors access to dedicated, high-quality equity research on companies and funds in the renewable energy sector.
The first four companies to be analysed are: Greencoat UK Wind, Greencoat Renewables, NextEnergy Solar and Bluefield Solar.
Charles Maynadier, equity analyst at Kempen & Co, explains: “At Kempen, we believe
Hedge funds ended 2019 with four consecutive positive quartersHedge fund managers ended Q4 2019 up 2.72 per cent on an equal-weighted basis and 2.63 per cent on an asset-weighted basis, a fourth consecutive quarter of positive performance, according to the latest data released by Eurekahedge.
Eurekahedge says that tund managers benefited from the market rally following encouraging developments of the US-China trade negotiations toward the end of the year.
On an annual basis, returns were positive across geographic and strategic mandates, supported by the risk-on sentiment and accommodative central bank policies throughout the year. Approximately 42.9 per cent of the
IHS Markit, a specialist in information, analytics and solutions, has enhanced its fixed income analytics in its Trade Cost Analysis (TCA) service in collaboration with Yieldbroker, a licensed electronic trading platform for Australian and New Zealand debt securities and derivatives.The alliance unites IHS Markit’s multi asset TCA tool, independent bond pricing and liquidity data with Yieldbroker’s six trillion of annual AUD and NZD market transaction volume. Together, these services offer customers sophisticated trade execution analytics and a broad spectrum of data to deliver more transparency in fixed income markets.
“This collaboration is a natural extension of our global, multi asset TCA
FactSet, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications, has launched US statutory insurance content from AM Best, a global credit rating agency, news publisher, and data analytics provider specialising in the insurance industry, across its distribution channels, including the FactSet workstation.“Market demand for more comprehensive industry-specific data is accelerating and expanding our offering is a key part of FactSet’s deep sector content strategy,” says Kristy Karnovsky, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research. “Insurance is one of the most sought-after areas, with AM Best the leader in the field. The integration of their content within FactSet provides
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global financial markets, has collaborated with Pure Storage to become the first managed service provider (MSP) to deliver all-NVMe, all-flash cloud to all capital markets.Built exclusively on Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) infrastructure from Pure Storage, this new solution allows Options’ customers to reliably store data at scale and access the information instantly across its global financial network. Customers can also more effectively deploy containerised environments, large-scale datasets and other low-latency applications.
Options’ Pure as-a-Service deployment will be integrated into the firm’s enterprise-grade network, comprised of 40-plus data centre sites worldwide. The first deployment
ARM Insight, a provider of actionable insights from financial data, has opened registrations for the upcoming launch of its Enlightmint research tool. Qualified equity analysts and portfolio managers may now register to be one of the first to take advantage of the insight provided through millions of consumer transactions across more than 1,600 companies and 430 tickers.
Enlightmint offers professionals in the asset management industry access to an intuitive SaaS-based visualisation tool composed of key business metrics informed by empirical card transactions. Dashboards can be self-tailored to reveal inflection points transaction trends for specific merchants and stock tickers or for specific
Traditionally, allocators and investors often eschewed smaller, specialist hedge funds in favour of the firepower offered by larger brand-name managers. But as many smaller funds have posted outsized gains in recent years – while well-established marquee names experienced decidedly mixed performances – many at the forefront of the industry are detecting a potentially decisive shift in investor sentiment.
